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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826286303321

Titolo

Constructing clienthood in social work and human services : interaction, identities, and practices / / edited by Chris Hall ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Jessica Kingsley, 2003

ISBN

1-283-90467-5

1-4175-0107-3

1-84642-412-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HallChristopher, Ph. D.

Disciplina

361.32

Soggetti

Social case work

Social interaction

Social work administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services: Interaction, Identities and Practices; Contents; Preface; Transcription Symbols; 1 Introduction: Beyond a Universal Client; Part I: Constructing Client Identities and Morals; 2 Legitimating the Rejecting of Your Child in a Social Work Meeting; 3 Caring but Not Coping: Fashioning a Legitimate Parent Identity; 4 Negotiating Clienthood and the Moral Order of a Relationship in Couple Therapy; Part II: Categorizing and Negotiating Clienthoods; 5 Creating a 'Bad' Client: Disalignment of Institutional Identities in Social Work Interaction

6 Parental Identity Under Construction: Discourse and Conversation Analysis of a Family Supervision Order7 The Absent Client: Case Description and Decision Making in Interprofessional Meetings; 8 The Dilemma of Victim Positioning in Group Therapy for Male Perpetrators of Domestic Violence; Part III: Client Work in Professional Contexts; 9 Trafficking in Meaning: Constructive Social Work in Child Protection Practice; 10 Complicated Gender; 11 The Social Worker as Moral Judge: Blame, Responsibility and Case Formulation

12 Writers', Clients', Counsellors' and Readers' Perspectives in Constructing Resistant Clients13 Client, User, Member as Constructed



in Institutional Interaction; 14 Conclusion: Yes, But Is This of Any Use?; References; The Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative book explores social work, therapy and counselling as a series of encounters - between clients and human services professionals, social workers, their colleagues and other professionals, and more widely between citizens and the state. It presents in-depth discussion of the roles, language and contexts of meetings between them.